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BENJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS

Dr. Benjamin E. Mays is Dean of the School of Religion of Howard
University, Washington, De Ce

ACADEMIC TRAINING:

State College’ of South Carolina,
Bates College, oe
Virginia Union University, Richmond,
University of Chicago, M. As, Pre De

AFFILIATIONS :

 

Dr. Mays is a Kent Fellow of the National Council on Religion in
Higher Education.

Member of Delta Thota Chi, a fraternity of students of high scholar-
s hip in the field of Religion in the University of Chicago.
Member of Delta Sigma Rho, National Forensic Society; Phi Beta Kappa
‘and Omega Psi Phi.

PUBLICATIONS :

 

Co-author of the Negrots Church"

Contributing authorin A. H. Gordonts book, "Negro Life and History

in South Carolina."

Articles in The Christian Century, @he Crisis and The Journal of

Negro Education.

In Séptembér of 1938, another book "The Negro's God," will be off press

 

 

 

POSITIONS HELD:

 

Dr. Mays served as pastor in Atlanta, Gebrgia, for three yearse He
assisted in a church in Chicago while attending the University of
Chicago. He was a teacher of higher mathematics in Morehouse College
for three years and a professor in the South Carolina State College.
As executive secretary of the Tampa Urb League he directed a study
relative to Negro Life in Tampa, Florida. While a National Y. Me Ce
Ae Student Secretary, Dr. Mays directed a study of the occupational
choices of Negro college students and for two years he @irected a
study of the Negro church under the auspices of the Institute of
Social and Religious Research. Dr.’Ma ys was called to his present
position in 19354, ; .

TRAVEL:

In Ja nuary 1937, Dr. Mays was one of the thirteen Americans to
represent the National Young Men's Christian Association of America
at the Workd Y.M.CeA.e Conference which met in Mysore, India.

In July of ‘the same year, Dr. Mays atgended the Oxford Conference on
the Church, Community and State.

In May, 1938, he represented the National Y.M.C.A. Of America at the
Plenary Séssion of the World Committee of the Y.M.CeA. which met in
Stockholm, Sweden.